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Discussions during the campaign to build a trump tower in moscow. yesterday my colleague alex witt spoke with the former aide about what shes expecting when cohen talks? >> there is no question that that big red line for donald trump is his children, particularly ivanka. once michael cohen starts sharing details that may implicate him, you will see him truly become, well, unhinged. >> meanwhile, the house votes on tuesday to stop the presidents national emergency declaration. that will trigger a...

As many as six republicans now are on the fence that we know of. they include lamar alexander, ben sasse the conservative of nebraska, lisa murkowski, thom tillis. susan collins of maine has already said she is going to be joining democrats and voting for this resolution. now, as you mentioned, in the meantime, the pentagon making preparations. the acting secretary of defense, patrick shanahan, went to el paso and new mexico, at the border with mexico. afterwards, he told reporters about what he...

Barriers in place where illicit activity, people and drugs can vanish. he described it as -- [ inaudible ] anyplace where people can cross the border and disappear within seconds to minutes, thats where you need barriers. >> reporter: so, alex, so many moving parts here. congress, even if it passes the house and the senate, unlikely to override the presidents action. that leaves the courts. meanwhile, we have the pentagon moving forward with their plan. some question whether they have the funds ...

$1.6 billion the second time. now we got to this escalation that we didnt get all we wanted but the house has provide resources over the past three years. >> but there is no secret, now this isnt the ultimate signature issue for the president, i guess it was politically during the campaign but legislatively its no secret that a lot of republicans thought that this notion of a border wall and spending all this money for a border wall was rhetorical for the president during the campaign was folly....

Narcotics are coming across. but, you know, the president is responding it is something that the american people understand and he is sending another 1,000 troops. i think we have a graph i want to put out. 5,000 troops existing on border and deployment. another 1,000 troops are being sent this coming week by march 1st. you have a total of 6,000. they will serve in an advisory, in a capacity that will support the efforts of our border patrol. because, when you have 1,000 people come over, many o...

It will be somewhat of a subject that were talking about here. >> would you drop criminal charges against huawei? >> well be talking to the u.s. attorneys, well be talking to the attorney general and well be making that decision. right now its not something were discussing. >> your officials mentioned there was a deal on currency. can you explain to us what that is. >> well let you kno know at the appropriate time. >> reporter: negotiators are working on six areas for a broad agreement. those ar...

Venezuela and what you are seeing people are taking matters into their own hands. you can talk about guaido and maduro but ultimately itll be decided by the people taking action on the streets. gillian: tough question to ask looking at pictures of riots, violence, is this encourage to go you in that sense? >> i have to say there are echos of people standing up to armed soldiers, facing down military equipment and barriers with nothing other than their hands empty and asking outreaching for peace...

For migrants to cross the border, so again, does all of this bolster president trumps demand for more border barriers? >> i think this kind of show and tell is something good for the president because -- remember, democrats have long supported border security and comprehensive immigration reform theres tens of billions of dollars in border security there and they supported the 2006 fence act, which created some barriers but was not fully completed, at least to the satisfaction of many critics. s...

. those who breach the barriers are stopped immediately. so people in the city of jena one its like living on an aircraft carrier its where the u.s. maintains the food base right in the middle of the town right next to a school. u.s. jets carry out maneuvers above the heads of nearly one hundred thousand residents. but tokyo and washington say theyll only close the base if another one is built somewhere else on the island. like many places in uk and our the fishing village of her is used to livi...

World war two. they are. almost every job used to depend on the americans almost no one dared say anything against them but now tourism in okinawa is booming and gradually people are starting to believe that something around here needs to change. in the fishing village of had no another at base is under construction. takeoff and landing runways are being built on reclaimed land on what had been a pristine a marine environment. activists have also taken to the sea confronting the coast guard prot...